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Dave Katz is a young white reporter who wants to be black. He works for a magazine called The Mic and is given a dream assignment, to go behind the scenes for three weeks with Jay-Z and Damon, the star rappers of Roc-A-Fella Records. His editor (Rashida Jones) doesn't want the same old stuff, she says. Watching the rest of Damon Dash's playful movie is like entering a room where a large, too noisy party is going on and never fully adjusting to the dark or the din. At one point, the film presents subtitles to translate the street language, but that was a lot funnier when the disaster spoof "Airplane" did it for Barbara Billingsley ("I speak jive") 25 years ago.  Anita Gates